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reblogged from roamin. (originally posted by shutupinternet)

There is a distinct lack of writers on Tumblr

reblogged from shutupinternet:

There’s such a distinct lack of text content on Tumblr that breaks even 100 words in a post, it’s pretty sad. I’m sure there are some fantastic writers out there, some fantastic thinkers too but where is their representation?

As I write this there are 1.2 million Tumblelogs, with “writer” being the ninth most popular tag and “writing” being the 18th most popular tag. That means there are a significant amount of writers on here, correct?

Nope.

The most popular Tumblelog classified under “writer” has three pictures of Miley Cyrus on its first page and a total of one hundred and forty three words. To anyone who writes significant amounts on Tumblr, like myself, frankly that is pretty insulting.

In a world where newspapers are folding due to distinct lack of funding, subscribers and new favor of online-only content, Tumblr is the perfect platform for writers: You write, you build a following, an audience, and anytime you publish you automatically have a group that auto-subscribes to your content with the possibility of reaching further once they choose to reblog and comment.

Tumblr, support your writers. Help add a text element to this picture-heavy platform that we have here.

To be fair, I do my text-based blogging somewhere else, because I don’t really feel like it fits the tumblr concept. What I love about tumblr is that I can just browse through and get little bite-sized pieces of content. If I feel like reading text posts, I’d rather read them in google reader or something.

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